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Reminder that even if you can’t see or smell smoke, Melbourne & Victoria is being covered in a fine layer of bushfire ash. Wear a P2 or N95 mask when you’re outside, as you’ll be breathing it in. Even more important if you’re pregnant, have asthma, or otherwise medically vulnerable. #VicFires

The Adelaide Writers Festival now wrecked by the Adelaide Festival Board, half of which was appointed late last year: a marketing executive; a former politician; a local councillor/real estate agent; an airport manager; a lawyer; a media consultant; and a banker. Another public arts takeover fiasco.

Luxon is posting his music playlist? Bro get back to work what the fuck man.

once again we are all tapping the sign

Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal: “No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle. “What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.” Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

You can, like, just do good. Good wins if you actually promise it and actually do good.

RNZ choosing to syndicate CNN here, and specifically an article that platforms, and even promotes, Vance and other fascists' views that the shooting was justified, while introducing doubt as to the actual reality we've all seen, is an absolute failure of RNZ staff. Wtaf are you all doing over there

Considering he wished NZers HYE from bougie Onetangi eatery Ki Māha, where entrees are $30+ and steak is $115, tone deaf doesn't even cover it 🫤

Lol, either the post was queued up a month ago and there's literally no one on the social media helm atm, or whoever is on deck actively hates Luxon

Couple of Marvin Gaye tracks to add: When Did You Stop Loving Me? and of course: What's Going On?

‘Invasion is not an event, it is a structure’ has quite the tone in light of that brand spanking new NZ FBI office.

Should have probably included this comparison of the wage share of the pie in previous 🧵 A stark reminder of just how much Roger and Ruth destroyed the bargaining power of workers as they set about creating a high profit / low wage, private debt fuelled, ecocidal, directionless economy.

This is a very, very 😎 story which delights me as someone who loves timber over concrete & steel structures 🙌

THIS. It's kind of amusing watching America's political media struggle with the notion that the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church - and the head of state of a sovereign nation - isn't just another politician or lobbyist who views the White House as the center of the universe.

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

When are either of the NZ mainstream party leaders going to comment on the martial law in the US? #Nzpol #uspol

What *rift*? He's the freaking Pope! www.axios.com/2026/01/09/t...

I’m tired of having to pay attention to the US because our right wing parties want to copy them. Look at this nazi shit.

Kāpiti Expressway was exactly the same

See also the Waikato Expressway. The US highway consultants even warned them that doing it on the cheap would cause issues, but they did it anyway and there have been constant roadworks ever since.

Defective PPP construction cannot handle a 24 degree warm day.

He has sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people He has kept among us Standing Armies without Consent of our legislatures For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us For protecting them from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States

Welcome to New Thieland.

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Trump is so pathetic & desperate.

Exemplary analysis from Adam Serwer of how the Trump regime's grand strategy is from Orwell: control the past to control the future But at the tactical level, their metier is straight outta South Park: They're Coming Right For Us www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr0b... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump: "If we don't take Greenland, you're gonna have Russia or China as your next door neighbor. That's not going to happen."

Tamatha Paul is still ‘right’ … Police officer living with gang member and caught with cannabis in drug bust one of 10 investigations into links between police and organised crime - paywall #nzpol

I'm not sure if most people, including politicians, understand that OIAs require staff to be pulled off their regular work to spend hours trawling through emails and other documents. I spent 4 hours this week collating information for a request that was for something another agency did.

The poster child for everything National/ACT does #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...

Kakanui looking ethereal this evening

Kārearea, with its usual look of disdain....

Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

So, the government knew there was a threat of our patient information being hacked over 6months ago? Why does simple Simeon still have a job? 🤨 #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/fresh-pro...

I think important context not in that article is while international arrivals to Queenstown are up 40%, arrivals to New Zealand are down 7% (2025 vs 2019). It is changes in where people are arriving- Invercargill is up 204% and Hamilton up 22,850% in the same period but won't get glossy adverstories

RNZ: "international visitor arrivals in Queenstown climb 40 percent higher than pre-Covid levels", surprised me but data confirms. Nov '19 55k passengers, Nov '25 84k, up 53%. They don't point out that this means 40%+ greater damage as well. Unsustainable growth. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Good luck with the World Cup and LA28.

For those who laugh at the suggestion that the US could invade Canada, Trump posted this one year ago.

This sounds like grounds for (more) complaints to the Privacy Commissioner? It should entirely be MMH responsibility to adhere to the law and remove those records. Again why there needs to be SERIOUS FINES IMPOSED. #nzpol

National-led government removes an easy campaign issue for opposition parties. #NzPol

theres so much horrible shit about the murder of renee good, but there is something deeply terrifying about the way everyone from media to politicians have erased her wife from the story. ive seen far more mention of her late husband than her wife who was sitting next to her when she was murdered

The current government have done a lot of fucking stupid things, cancelling iReX was by far the stupidest. And all out of spite, with no Plan B🤦🏻‍♂️ #nzpol

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Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).